20 BULLETIN" 81, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



as already pointed out by v. Hofsten, Ark. ZooL, Stockholm, vol. 6, 

 No. 1, 1909, p. 96. 



Brachionus capsuliflorus Pallas, Elench. Zooph., 1766, p. 91. 



(TuMpora urceus Muller, Flora Fridrichsdalina, 1767, p. 238, is usually cited in 



the synonymy of this species; as it is without a word of description, an absolute 



nomen nudum, it must be treated as such; that is, ignored.) 

 Brachionus urceolaris Muller, Verm. Terr. Fluv., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1773, p. 131 ; not Vorticella 



urceolaris Linnaeus. 

 Brachionus quadridentatus Hermann, Naturforscher, vol. 19, 1783, p. 47, pi. 2, fig. 9. 

 Brachionus bakeri MIjller, Anim. Infus., 1786, p. 359, pi. 47, fig. 13; pi. 50, figs. 22, 23. 

 Brachionus quadricornis Schrank, Fauna Boica, vol. 3, pt. 2, 1803, p. 134. 

 Brachionus bicornis Schrank, Fauna Boica, vol. 3, pt. 2, 1803, p. 135. 

 Brachionus octodentatus Bory de St. Vincent, Class. Anim. Micr., 1826, p. 83. 

 Noteus bakeri Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1830, p. 48. Type (monotype) 



of genus Noteus Ehrenberg, 1830. 

 Brachionus utricularis Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat.,' vol. 17, 1831, 



p. 102, fig. 

 Brachionus ncglectus Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., vol. 17, 1831, p. 



103, fig. 

 Brachionus brevispinus Ehrenberg, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (for 1831), 1832, p. 146. 

 Brachionus lyra Costa, Fauna Regno Napoli, Infusori, 1838, p. 20, pi. 3, fig. 1. 

 Brachionus costulatus Eichwald, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, vol. 17, 1844, pt. 2, 



p. 698. 

 Brachionus latissimus Schmarda, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 7, 1854, pt. 2, 



p. 18, pi. 4, fig. 4. 

 Brachionus longipes Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 64, pi. 15, 



fig. 133. 

 Brachionus nicaraguensis Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 64, pi. 



15, fig. 134. 

 Brachionus jamaicensis Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 64, pi. 15, 



fig. 135. 

 Brachionus chilensis Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 64, pi. 15, 



fig. 136. 

 Brachionus ancylognathus Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 65, pi. 



15, fig. 137. 

 Brachionus polyceros Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 65, pi. 15, 



fig. 138. 

 Brachionus pustulatus Schmarda, Neue wirbell. Thiere, 1859, vol. 1, p. 65, pi. 15, 



fig. 139. _ 



Brachionus polonskii Alenitzin, Trudy Sankt-Peterbvu*gskago Obshch. lEstest- 



voisp., vol. 5, 1874, p. XVIII. 

 Brachionus rubens Gosse, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2, p. 119, pi. 27, 



fig. 5; pi. A; not Brachionus rubens Ehrenberg, 1838. 

 Brachionus bidentata Anderson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 58, 1889, pt. 2, 



p. 357, pi. 21, fig. 13. 

 Brachionus tuberculiis Turner, Bull. Denison Univ., vol. 6, 1892, p. 65, pi. 1, fig. 6. 

 Brachionus rhenanus Lauterborn, Zool. Jahrb., Syst., vol. 7, 1893, p. 269, pi. 11, 



fig. 3. 

 Brachionus granulatus Kertesz, Budapest Rotat. Faun., 1894, p. 51, pi. 1, fig. 5. 

 Brachionus reticulatus Kertesz, Budapest Rotat. Faun., 1894, p. 51, pi. 1, fig. 6. 

 Brachionus melheni Barrois and Daday, Math. Term. Ert., vol. 12, 1894, p. 233, 



pi. 7, figs. 18, 19. 

 Brachionus bursarius Barrois and Daday, Math. Term. Ert., vol. 12, 1894, p. 235, 



pi. 7, fig. 20. 



